Hoher Meisner
The mountain massif of Hoher Meisner high up to 753,6 m is in the nature park Meissner Kaufunger forest in northeast Hessen, Germany.
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Geography
The extremely wuchtige, very extensive, quite strongly wooded, for approximately 10 km for a long time and 5 km broad high Meissner is appropriate between Eschwege and Grossalmerode as well as bath Sooden Allendorf and Waldkappel. Together with large parts of the Kaufunger of forest and the Soehrewalds he forms the very extensive nature park Meissner Kaufunger forest.
Geology
In the Tertiary period the area was covered by sumptuous forest. From this developed brown coal camp, which was covered by sand and lava. The basalt formations are eroded and once had been much higher by decomposition.
Geomorphology
Hoher Meißner – highest mountain in Nordeast-Hessen
The high Meissner is not with its 753.6 m highly rising Kasseler crest the highest collection in North Hesse, even if this is the landlaeufige and wide-spread opinion in such a way and is represented also in many publications. In northwest Hessen lie some mountains, which are still substantially higher – see for this Upland. Therefore only the highest Erbebung of northeast Hessen is – the Kasseler crest on the high Meissner.
Mountains
- Kasseler Kuppe (753,6 m)
- Kasseler Stein (748 m)
- Kalbe (720 m)
- Heiligenberg am Meißner (583 m)
- Bühlchen am Meißner (537 m)
Outlook Points
From different locations on the mountain massif Meissner one can enjoy wonderful views:
- Calf: From that one looks to approximately 720 m high basalt crest over there to the Werratal, to the nature park Eichsfeld Hainich Werratal, in addition the view is enough up to the resin, to the Thueringer forest and to the Rhoen. This lookout point is only to foot to reach – e.g. over a path, which begins Mrs. Holle at the pond.
- Schwalbenthal: More simply to reach than the evenly mentioned basalt crest calf 100 m below to strassengabelungen a similarly good lookout point is: only little below the stinking objection already mentioned is a parking lot, from which one can enjoy a wonderful prospect under others from approximately 620 m height on that approximately 420 m below lying Meissner Vockerode, in addition, direction Thuringia over there looks.
- Meissnerhaus: From the southwest side of the mountain one looks and others to the cellar forest, to the Habichtswald and to the Kaufunger forest.
Mining
The brown coal mining industry began already after 1560, after one had found gloss coal bits so mentioned in a brook, and exclusively persisted until 1929 under days. The coal was promoted for example for the salt simmering enterprise to bath Sooden Allendorf and the large power station to Kassel.
- Stinking objection & Schwalbenthal: A good reference to the century-long ex mining industry at the Meissner is the stinking objection in such a way specified, which is highly above in the Schwalbenthal at the east slope of the mountain: In former times under days coal was diminished there. After the mining industry was stopped, to have already centuries ago some coal seams caught fire there, whose exhaust gases step to the surface. Even in recent time all attempts failed to delete these smoldering seams so that one can notice a sulfur-like smell of not completely burned brown coal at the parking lot in the Schwalbenthal often – partly even very strongly. The something below the stinking objection at the mountain-slope standing hotel Schwalbenthal is the last leftover former approximately 10 houses of a comprehensive mining industry settlement, whose houses had to be torn off due to landslides.
- Bransrode on the northwest side of the mountain massif was closed 1929 concerning the brown coal dismantling with Bransrode – a former mountain workers' housing estate – the last Untertagestollen, but one began immediately with the basalt dismantling, which was operated there even still to 2003.
- Calf (ex open mining): From 1949 to 1974 by means of days at the calves brown coal one promoted, which is still to be recognized still well: After the pumps were turned off, up to 30 m deep a lake northeast formed and above this for approximately 20,000 m² large lake is the basalt crest calf in the former open mining, whose quite evenly gradated and quite high basalt walls are impressing much. In order to put the coal seams freely, the basalt masses storing over it had to be diminished and way-created: These were then poured simply over the mountain-slopes, which is to be recognized also today still by the waste dumps resulted from it well: Meter high pile up themselves at the slopes above the woman Holle pond partly large basalt breaking into up.